Tag: Gertrude Contemporary

Lecture | Joe Banks ‘Rorschach Audio’ |Gertrude Contemporary

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Joe Banks | ‘Rorschach Audio’ | Histories and Theories of Sound, Lecture #5 2015 Liquid Architecture and the Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA are pleased to present British sound artist and writer Joe Banks in Australia for the first time. On Wednesday June 3 at 6.30pm at Gertrude Contemporary, Banks will deliver a lecture titled ‘Rorschach Audio’ as part of the ‘Histories and Theories of Sound’ series presented in association with Gertrude Contemporary, Liquid Architecture and Discipline. Banks’s lecture is #5 in the ‘Histories and Theories of Sound’ series that began last year, and has featured lectures by Branden W. Joseph, David Grubbs, Douglas Kahn, and James Parker. BLURB In Rorschach Audio: Art & Illusion for Sound, Banks offers a critical account of Spiritualistic and allegedly supernatural Electronic Voice Phenomena (ghost­voice) recordings, tracing the uncanny phenomena back through the histories of art,…

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News | Virginia Trioli appointed new chair of Gertrude Contemporary

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News from Gertrude Contemporary that journalist Virginia Trioli has been appointed the new chair of Gertrude Contemporary. Trioli joins Gertrude Contemporary as they make plans to move to a new home in Johnson St at the former Collingwood Technical School. From Gertrude Contemporary: The Board of Gertrude Contemporary is pleased to announce the appointment of Virginia Trioli as the new Chair of the Board of Management. Trioli is one of Australia’s most respected and recognised journalists, and brings to the organisation a rich knowledge of visual art and its broader role within Australian culture. Gertrude Contemporary Director Emma Crimmings said, ‘We are delighted to welcome Virginia to the role of Chairperson of the Gertrude Board. Virginia was associated with Gertrude in its earliest stages, working alongside founding Director Louise Neri when the organisation launched in the early 1980s. Virginia re-joins Gertrude…

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Lecture | Gertrude–Discipline Lecture #3 | Timothy Moore

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The third Gertrude Contemporary–Discipline lecture for 2015 will be given by Timothy Moore on Tuesday the 28th of April, at 6pm for a 6.30pm start. Please N.B. the change of venue to Kalex at 166 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy. ABSTRACT Temporary architecture — that forms a community pavilion or event, a communal working space, artistic intervention, cultural platform or gastronomical destination — has had increased attention in wealthy economies in the twenty-first century. The pop-up project soon pops-down, however its effects are far from temporary. This is the screensaver, where a temporary project acts as a transition slide for a city yet to come. Screensaver architecture can be read cynically as low-cost aesthetic camouflage that may disguise speculative development to follow. Or it may provide fleeting moments to create new civic meaning and forms outside of market-driven property and planning frameworks.…

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Applications for the Gertrude Contemporary Emerging Writers Program are closing soon

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Deadline: Friday 3rd April 2015 marks the tenth anniversary of the Gertrude Contemporary Emerging Writers Program. The Program provides a unique opportunity for emerging visual arts writers nation-wide to develop their writing practice, publish their work, and gain further insight into the field of contemporary art writing through a year-long mentorship with an established art historian, curator or writer. This year Gertrude has renovated its Emerging Writers Program to be more adaptive to the specific skills, strengths and style of its Emerging Writers. As in previous years, applicants selected for the Program will be paired with a mentor for a period of one year. With their mentors’ help, Emerging Writers will produce two pieces of professional writing for publication, one of which will be a Studio 12 catalogue essay. In 2015, however, Gertrude diversifies its partner organisations so that Emerging Writers…

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Exhibition Openings and Artist Talks | Gertrude Contemporary Art

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New exhibitions open tonight at Gertrude Contemporary in Fitzroy. Tomorrow (31st January) there will be a series of artist talks. All exhibition run from 30 January – 14 March 2015, details below. Gertrude Contemporary | 200 Gertrude street Fitzroy | www.gertrude.org.au Opening hours Tuesday-Friday 11.00-5.30pm, Saturday 11.00-4.30pm Friday 30th January: Exhibition Openings from 6pm Saturday 31st January:  Artist talks, painting demonstration, studio sale  1.00pm | David Egan will discuss his exhibition Actually Energy Help Light with curator Helen Hughes and the public. 1.30pm | Marrnyula Mununggurr will talk about her exhibition Ganybu with curator Helen Hughes and the public, as well as give a painting demonstration using natural Yolngu ochres and bark. 11.30–4.30pm | Sarah crowEST (the current exhibiting artist in Studio 12) will be holding a sale upstairs in her adjacent Studio 10. Marrnyula Mununggurr, Ganybu Marrnyula Mununggurr presents a new body of work, Ganybu — a…

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Studio Open Day | Gertrude Contemporary

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SATURDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2014, 12.00PM–4.30PM Gertrude Contemporary’s Studio Artists will open their studios to the public for the afternoon of Saturday 29 November 2014, 12–4.30pm. This is an exclusive opportunity to visit the sixteen studios upstairs, view works in progress, and meet with the artists. It complements the annual Gertrude Studios exhibition, Part Two of which is currently on display. Gertrude’s current Studio Artists are Ross Coulter, Sean Bailey, Tully Moore, Claire Lambe, Sarah CrowEST, Jess Johnson, Sean Peoples, Scott Miles, Danae Valenza, Helen Grogan, Søren Dahlgaard, Hamishi Farah, Bridie Lunney, Alasdair McLuckie and Charlie Sofo. The current Studio 18 artists in residence are London-based collaborative duo David Brazier and Kelda Free, who will present work developed during their Gertrude Contemporary residency alongside an existing work called Virtual Employee (2010) at the open day. The Virtual Employee project involved the…

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Gertrude Discipline Lecture | Inside Outside and In Parallel: Speculations from four curators working in the Turkish Context

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Mari Spirito, Övül Durmuşoğlu, Başak Şenova and November Paynter The next Gertrude-Discipline lecture takes the form of a panel: a discussion between four curators whose work concerns the presentation and production of contemporary art from Turkey. Mari Spirito, Övül Durmuşoğlu, Başak Şenova and November Paynter represent a range of voices from within the independent, not-for-profit and museum sectors in Turkey. They will discuss their approaches to curating contemporary Turkish art, highlighting the individual concerns, challenges and circumstances that motivate and inform their curatorial approaches. Following the panel discussion, Associate Professor and Director of Curatorial Practise at Monash University and Editor at-large for The Exhibitionist, Tara McDowell, will facilitate a Q&A with the audience. Inside, Outside & In Parallel: Speculations from four curators working in the Turkish context is presented by Gertrude Contemporary and Discipline in collaboration with Artspace and Protocinema. Mari Spirito, Övül Durmuşoğlu, Başak…

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Lecture | Sound Matters: One Energy Among Others – Douglas Kahn

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Gertrude, Discipline and Liquid Architecture – Theories and Histories of Sound Douglas Kahn will give the second lecture in a series presented by Gertrude Contemporary, Discipline and Liquid Architecture festival on the theories and histories of sound. This exploratory talk will follow from Douglas Kahn’s most recent book, Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts (University of California Press, 2013). The book, over a decade in the making, is a fundamental reworking in the histories of science, communications, music and the arts to account for the incursion of electromagnetism into culture from the nineteenth century to the present. It covers such figures as Thomas Watson, Henry David, Thoreau, John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Joyce Hinterding and Alvin Lucier, Kahn’s former teacher. Investigating the trade between acoustics and electromagnetism in aesthetics and the arts poses questions for new…

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Gertrude Contemporary/Discipline Contemporary Art lecture #7 | Interface, Access, Loss – Sean Dockray

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LECTURE #7: Sean Dockray  Interface, Access, Loss with respondent Jake Goldenfein This lecture surveys how the structure of digital property has changed over the past few years with the growth of ‘the cloud’. Drawing on concepts from computer science, it traces a path from the peer-to-peer utopianism of a decade ago to the power and data centralising within today’s Internet platforms. It is a dark lecture, written under the cloud’s shadow, but I’ll conclude with an attempt to gesture toward some cracks in those interfaces that define the seemingly impermeable contours of this new reality. Sean Dockray is an artist, a founding director of the Los Angeles non-profit Telic Arts Exchange, and initiator of knowledge-sharing platforms, The Public School andaaaarg.org. As a research fellow the Post-Media Lab at Leuphana University last year, he explored the physical infrastructure of the sharing…

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Gertrude Contemporary/Discipline Contemporary Art lecture #6 Nikos Papastergiadis ‘On Friendship’

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LECTURE #6: On Friendship ‘How do we know what we like when it comes to art?’ Professor Nikos Papastergiadis The lecture will be  followed by a Q&A with Pip Wallis The sixth lecture of the Gertrude Contemporary – Discipline: Contemporary Art Lecture Series will be given by Melbourne academic and writer Professor Nikos Papastergiadis. In this lecture, On Friendship, Papastergiadis will consider what role sensory awareness plays in our knowledge of contemporary art. He will argue that the answer to these questions requires more than just looking at art. Nikos Papastergiadis is Professor at the School of Culture and Communication and Director of the Research Unit in Public Cultures at the University of Melbourne. His current research focuses on the investigation of the historical transformation of contemporary art and cultural institutions by digital technology. His publications include Modernity as Exile (1993), Dialogues in the Diaspora (1998), The…

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Lecture | Lauren Cornell on Contemporary Art

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The fourth lecture of the Gertrude Contemporary – Discipline: Contemporary Art Lecture Series will be given by Lauren Cornell 31 JULY 2013, 6PM for 6:30PM Gertrude Contemporary, 200 Gertrude St, Fitzroy Free, no bookings necessary During her talk, Cornell will give a succinct overview of art engaged with the internet, and explore how the vastly accelerated circulation and distribution of contemporary art has facilitated the emergence of new communities, new aesthetics and formal trends and a host of discursive opportunities, and challenges. Cornell will focus on her work with Rhizome, as well as recent exhibitions she has organized, including Free (2010) at the New Museum, and Circulate (2012) at Foam,Amsterdam,and briefly discuss her work as Curator of the Museum as Hub and The 2015 New Museum Triennale. Formerly Executive Director of Rhizome, Lauren Cornell is now Curator of 2015 Triennial (with Ryan…

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Lecture | Justin Clemens ‘What do we talk about when we talk about contemporary art?’

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The third lecture of the Gertrude Contemporary – Discipline: Contemporary Art Lecture Series will be given by Justin Clemens. His lecture What do we talk about when we talk about contemporary art? will coincide with the publication of his forthcoming book Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy. This lecture surveys the most important theories of contemporary art – including those by Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Boris Groys, Jacques Ranciere, various Octoberites and so-called Speculative Realists – in order to point out their strengths and weaknesses, and outline several possible new ways of talking about art. The Gertrude Contemporary – Discipline: Contemporary Art Lecture Series is a collaboration between Melbourne based contemporary art journal Discipline and Gertrude Contemporary. The series presents lectures on key concerns, artists and theories of contemporary art. Throughout 2013 lecturers will speak from the perspective of a variety of…

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Lecture | The Trauma of the Political – or, Catch Me I’m Falling (into the Ambivalent Arms of Law)

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Gertrude – Discipline Contemporary Art Lecture Series The Trauma of the Political – or, Catch Me I’m Falling (into the Ambivalent Arms of Law) Dr Juliet Rogers in conversation with Maria Tumarkin There is an excitement about falling that betrays itself in images and experiences of the flesh, from Richard Drew’s capture of the Falling Man during September 11, 2001, to climate change activists’ depictions of the psychosis of not believing we will hit the ground, and the suspended nature of the work of William Kentridge. Art and falling go hand in hand, Rogers suggests, and so too does politics. We can see the current politics of the liberal democratic, in which sovereign aggression is excused by sovereign care. Where law both pushes the subject into the abyss in the interests of its protection, and where flesh is cut, tortured…

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Lecture | John Nixon: A Communist Artist – Rex Butler

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Gertrude Contemporary – Discipline: Contemporary Art Lecture Series Gertrude Contemporary and the art-journal Discipline are joining forces to present year long program of lectures on key concerns, artists and theories of contemporary art. The guest lecturers will speak from the perspective of a variety of different disciplines — including philosophy, cultural studies, art history and literary studies — as well as from academic and non-academic backgrounds. The first lecture of the Gertrude Contemporary – Discipline: Contemporary Art Lecture Series will be given by Rex Butler. ‘John Nixon: A Communist Artist’ will examine the work of Melbourne-based abstract artist John Nixon who has been the subject of much discussion over the past twenty years. He has been lauded for continuing the radical experiments of Russian constructivism, criticised for not being truly experimental, and positioned as continuing an avant-garde tradition that somehow…

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